Ethics for the Professions

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This new text provides students with the tools necessary to make ethically sound decisions in the professions they choose for themselves. The text combines lucid explanations of leading philosophical moral theories with detailed discussion of how those theories are to be applied. Each chapter concludes with short cases and questions to engage students in solving perplexing professional ethics issues.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(10)

Part 1: Across the Professions

Moral Theories

11

(43)

Utilitarian Ethics

12

(10)

Deontological Ethics

22

(13)

Contractarian Ethics

35

(6)

Virtue Ethics

41

(6)

Feminist Ethics

47

(7)

Perspectives on Professional Ethics

54

(33)

What Is a Profession?

56

(6)

Michael D. Bayles

Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?

62

(8)

Michael Davis

Strong Separatism in Professional Ethics

70

(5)

John-Christian Smith

Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics

75

(5)

Don Welch

The Excuses That Make Professional Ethics Irrelevant

80

(7)

Banks McDowell

Employee Rights

87

(35)

The Moral Foundation of Employee Rights

90

(6)

John R. Rowan

Employment at Will and Due Process

96

(5)

Patricia H. Werhane

Tara J. Radin

Work, Privacy, and Autonomy

101

(7)

Richard L. Lippke

Affirmative Action: The Legal and Moral Contexts

108

(7)

William H. Shaw

Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex

115

(7)

Vicki Schultz

Professional-Client Relations

122

(43)

Client and Professional

125

(9)

Paul Faber

Needs, Moral Self Consciousness, and Professional Roles

134

(6)

Andrew Alexandra

Seumas Miller

The Role of Autonomy in Professional Ethics

140

(5)

James Stacey Taylor

Confidentiality: A Comparison Across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering and Accounting

145

(7)

Mary Beth Armstrong

My Client, My Enemy

152

Judith Andre

Part 2: Specific Professions

Business and the Professions

165

(35)

A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation

168

(5)

R. Edward Freeman

The Moral Duties of Organizations. Dual-Investor Theory and the Nature of Organizations

173

(7)

Eugene Schlossberger

Paternalism in the Marketplace: Should a Salesman Be His Buyer's Keeper?

180

(3)

James M. Ebejer

Michael J. Morden

Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers

183

(6)

Robert W. McGee

Environmental Ethics and the Business Professional: Responsibilities and Opportunities